Joel Tenenbaum, the second P2P defendant to take his case all the way through trial, is on the hook for $675,000 in damages. But according to his lawyer, Tenenbaum only caused the record labels $21 in damages. The disparity between these two figures is, in the words of Harvard Law’s Charles Nesson, “monstrous and shocking.”

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